David Muir & Valerie Amos on Somalia

with David Muir and Valerie Amos
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David Muir of ABC News & Valerie Amos, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs discuss Somalia

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    1. SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/12/2011 02:05 PM Report

      My wife donated $60 to Samaritan's Purse. She is very empathetic to the point it overrides her pre-frontal cortex.

      http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/food_crisis_in_kenya/

    2. DLJ  08/10/2011 07:29 PM Report

      I’m a big Rose fan but he always leaves key questions on the table.

      Why does the UN need $1 billion to help?

      If we continue to help won’t there just be more and more people to starve and save?

      Shouldn’t the UN be doing something about the population being far too large for the land? Does the UN teach people to fish?

      Why don’t the Somali pirates buy food for their people?

    3. NeilMacCallister  08/08/2011 01:31 AM Report

      Hear! Hear! ..Sharkie!!!

      Aid money buys gold faucets for Presidents around the world! ..while the world's people starve!

      Maybe we should just drop all trade barriers, and American-industry subsidies, ..and let those foreign people LIVE!!!

      I like Somali tuna fish!! ..and semolina!! ..and Coca Cola!!!

      Long live the Somalians!!!

    4. SharkswithfrikingLazers  08/06/2011 04:15 AM Report

      Heart wrenching images. Yet I am afraid the food either sits there in a port or airport or is stolen and sold and the money used to kill someone else.

      Why do I have trouble believing the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs? Perhaps the UN has a very bad record. I still remember "Hotel Rwanda" and the dialogue between Paul Rusesabagina and the UN's Colonel Oliver.

    5. REMant  08/05/2011 11:53 AM Report

      No doubt this is a tragedy, but I hope no one thinks it was CAUSED by Al-Shabaab. On the contrary that organization has long encouraged local farm self-sufficiency by restricting food imports. They had allowed aid to come in three weeks ago, so Ms Clinton is grandstanding. No doubt, however, the US will find some reason to refuse their offer. This spat has all the earmarks of a typical urban-liberal vs rural-conservative struggle with foreign interventions on both sides, like Vietnam and Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua, El-Salvador, and so forth. IMHO American military involvement can only diminish our reputation and hurt the ppl in the long run. A far more sensible approach would be fight the causes in liberal society which bring things to this pass instead of blaming it all on feudal repression, etc. This, of course, would be opposed by global business interests as well as philanthropists, and a large segment of academia.